Villa

[cecofuli]

PIXELBOX_SRO. I don't saw this big slow down for the LC passage. But yes, with a lot of grass, LC is very long. Usually I use veyy low poly for my grass models. Do you have some real test to show your problem? Because MS is only a scatter tools.

Infrared digital: After unwrapping, we paint the road by hand, in a 8K resolution. we use some cgtexture maps. Same for footpaths.

[peprgb]

Astonishing detail Francesco, really hard job i guess. I like very much the copper facade.

@PIXELBOX_SRO so what do you use now? i think Forest Pack is not faster (neither slower) than MS...

[pixela]

Nice renders and details. Just a little thing I noticed: The sign image looks incorrectly scaled-Looks large to me.
About the animation: It is the only camera moving so I think it can be shorter. I like the take approaching to the house.

[cecofuli]

Yes. I saw this error when it was too late >.< Gggrrr.... At the start, the animation isn't in the contract.
Only when we finished the still, we had the request.
No budget and time to replace all the static environment stuff with animated prosy, trees, grass, do more test etc...

[prateekvishwa]

amazing! how did you managed so much of foliage! rendering time? very nice detailing & texturing. Over all superb job!

[Inaxis]

Superb job Francesco! Great details, textures and mood! How long did it take the project and how many artists was helping you? And the memory usage?

[cecofuli]

About 2-3 weeks. Only me. Memory: 24 GB RAM all our machines.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

its been almost 2 years since i ve changed the scatterign tools from MS to FP.
at that time, using LC was just a nightmare when you ve tried to make the foliage denser. I am glad i ve changed the softs cos FP has much better support.
i will try some tests when i get some time to check whether the rendering times still differ.

[cecofuli]

Yes, Support for MS is... where is the support ))) ??? But for me, for me little workflow, MS is ok. I don't need more.
If in the future I feel that MS is not enough, I will try to think to change to FP

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

its not that bad ...the crossover to FP

[peprgb]

Yep, regular support, and still waiting for 2.3 support... however i would like to see a detailed comparison of MS and FP regarding speed, RAM (i remember BBB3 saying MS maybe was better with RAM management), features...etc

[prateekvishwa]

what is FP?? is it itoo forest pro?

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

yes Prateek

[BBB3]

Oh my, I love everything about this. It really comes together. Love how the copper colour echoes around the garden.

[digitalx3d]

Beautiful work Francesco! Would you mind sharing what render setting you used to eliminate flickering in the trees and grass? I can never seem to get rid of that, unless maybe I'm just unwilling to let frame render times go much beyond 15 minutes.